Head of German military task force raises concern of Russia rearming to target NATO on eve of Donald Trump being sworn in to office

A Russian ‘Grad’ self-propelled multiple rocket launcher fires towards Ukrainian positions Credit: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP

Revelation 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • Russia is rearming faster than first thought for a potential attack on Nato, Germany’s military pointman on Ukraine has warned.
  • On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president, Maj Gen Christian Freuding said that Russia had already replaced missiles and tanks lost in its invasion of Ukraine.
  • “The Russian armed forces are not just able to compensate for their enormous personnel and material losses… they are successfully rearming,” he told Die Welt newspaper.
  • Vladimir Putin has reorientated the Russian economy to feed his war machine and has also bought extra supplies from Iran and North Korea which Maj Gen Freuding, who is head of the German military’s task force, said was helping Russia replenish its tanks, missiles and drones.
  • He warned that although it was not clear that Putin had plans to attack Nato, he was “clearly creating the conditions for it”.
  • “Production is growing, the supplies in the depots are growing,” he said.
  • Germany is locked in a debate ahead of a national election next month on whether to back a £2.5 billion aid package for Ukraine.
  • In Ukraine, Russian forces have surrounded the fortress town of Pokrovsk and are on the brink of capturing one of the last Ukraine-held villages in south Donetsk.

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